Definitions for ravish

ravish rav·ish

Spelling: [rav-ish]
IPA: /ˈræv ɪʃ/

Ravish is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 106 anagrams from letters in ravish (ahirsv).

Definitions for ravish

verb (used with object)

  1. to fill with strong emotion, especially joy.
  2. to seize and carry off by force.
  3. to carry off (a woman) by force.
  4. to rape (a woman).

Origin of ravish

1250-1300; Middle English ravishen Middle French raviss-, long stem of ravir to seize ≪ Latin rapere; see rape1

Examples for ravish

It was, indeed, filled with all that might dazzle and ravish the sight.

The law of rape, until 1849, used these words: "If any man do ravish a woman," &c.

The smell of these roses in the summer was quite enough to ravish you.

The danger that England or France might ravish it away from us came to the fore.

What war could ravish, commerce could bestow, And he returned a friend, who came a foe.

It was a feat altogether to ravish a delighted father's heart, and no wonder that he counted John so great a comfort.

I will engage them conversationally and ravish them with erect and quivering adjectives.

Next they wanted to know if Hill had told "the black men to ravish all the white women."

Callot's men are users of the wheel and the estrapade; they roast the husband while they ravish the wife.

They were licensed to break up Negro frolics, whip the men, and ravish the women.

Word Value for ravish
Scrable

12

Words with friends

12

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